One of the most exciting parts of Swift being open-sourced is that it can be used as a more general purpose programming language. Server side Swift is an especially appealing platform given the web’s ubiquity. Recently, Apple began to support this initiative more formally by creating a working group dedicated to Swift on the server. We at Big Nerd Ranch are very excited to see Swift on the server.
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